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> Once we can travel anywhere in about 24 hours or less, it's hard to justify the cost of better. Clearly you've never travelled with a two year old =) There
by finnh 12y ago
> Once we can travel anywhere in about 24 hours or less, it's hard to justify the cost of better.
Clearly you've never travelled with a two year old =)
There are many cases where travel just isn't worth it, and the limiting factor is time rather than money.
- CapitalistCartr 12y agoI do wish you were right, but I have had the joy of travel with small children. Grandchildren, too. As for the limiting factor being time, rather than money, Stross's article gives good examples of there not being enough people willing to pay the exorbitant costs.
- VLM 12y agoImagine a lighter than air cruise-ship. That's an interesting idea and somewhat more realistic from an engineering perspective. There must be some kind of happy medium of a giant lifting body full of helium that takes 24 hours but is large and luxurious. The key to all future transport seems to be turning it away from disciplined travel as the primary activity. Doesn't matter if its bizjets or cruise ships or trains or my crazy balloon idea. A cultural moving away from "travel for 4 hours strapped into a seat in a car or old fashioned airplance" but "hang out at the bar for 8 hours or play video games or post on facebook for 8 hours, or join the mile high club all night, oh, and at the same time as traveling from pt A to pt B but its not the primary activity"